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March 01, 2006
You Can Lead a Horse's Ass to Water
The Huffington Post is capable of surprising me occasionaly, as today when they publish a post from a Marine serving his second tour of duty in Iraq.
Even more recently, Monday's NYT Op-Ed by Nicholas Kristoff, (Read it here) set off a wave of defeatism. Citing a recent Zogby international poll he states, "US Soldiers overwhelmingly want out of Iraq- and soon." He goes on to say "By a two-to-one ratio, the troops said that 'to control the insurgency we need to double the level of ground troops and bombing missions.' And since there is zero chance of that happening, a majority of troops seemed to be saying that they believe this war to be unwinnable."
However, less than 30% of US troops want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Kristoff fails to ask the most interesting question- why do most US troops want to stay in Iraq for an additional 6 months? If things are so hopeless, why not withdraw immediately? I don't know the answer to this, but it is the question that responsible members of the media should be asking before jumping to dangerous conclusions that the war is an unwinnable Vietnam. (On an interesting side note, check out what veterans who have served in both wars think here.)
Similarly, the polling data of Iraqis used by proponents for immediate withdrawal is also misconstrued. They claim that up to 80% of Iraqis want us out. Like I said, I want us out too, but not immediately and most Iraqis agree. In fact, the misappropriated polling date demonstrates that only 23% of Iraqis want us out immediately, but for some reason the other 77% want us to stay at least another 6 months. Why? Probably for some of the same reasons many of our own troops want us to stay another 6 months.
Of course, the commenters on that post react like a bunch of vampires suddenly faced with a crucifix.
Posted by pat at March 1, 2006 03:32 PM
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